10 Status Updates On Iconic Horror Movie Franchises
4. A Nightmare On Elm Street
Last Film Entry: A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
What's Going On?
It's all been quiet on the Elm Street front for the past few years, with the rights to the property nowadays under the control of Wes Craven's estate. Of course, Craven wrote and directed the original A Nightmare on Elm Street, helped put together the story of Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, and returned to the director's chair for Wes Craven's New Nightmare in 1994.
Back in 2015, Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema explored remaking A Nightmare on Elm Street for a second time; that coming on the back of the vanilla 2010 redo headlined by poor Jackie Earle Haley. Once those rights ended up with Craven's estate in 2019, pitches have been encouraged for both movies and TV shows set in and around the world of Freddy Krueger and Springwood.
Lights Out's David F. Sandberg and The Fall of the House of Usher's Mike Flanagan have both previously shown interest in doing something with the Elm Street property, but for now Krueger remains dormant and on the sidelines.
As for Robert Englund - who played Freddy in eight films - he's ruled himself out of any further outings as the nefarious child killer, telling Variety last year that he's "too old and thick to play Freddy now"... but offering up the fascinating suggestion of Kevin Bacon taking over the iconic role.